Settled before 1750. Nearby was Riddle’s Fort, frontier outpost. Here Battle of Lost River was fought in 1756 between company of Virginia frontiersmen under Captain Jeremiah Smith and band of 50 French and Indians.

Marker is on West Virginia Route 259 just south of Dove Hollow Road (Local Route 14), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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